Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Brain1050/Archive

Suspected sockpuppets
Endlessct9a creates List of Closer to Truth episodes in August 2013 and edits it and related pages almost exclusively until they cease activity in September 2013. Cttnjain begins editing in June 2015 and ceases in that same month having edited no other pages. Little.Ibis begins editing in June 2016 making substantially the same edits as the previous two accounts, they edit again in August before going silent. Cgrubb9 was created in December 2016 and began editing the list in may 2017 along the lines of the other three accounts. Sparkytacos makes a single edit in February 2018. Analysis357 edited the list in June 2019 along the same lines as the other accounts. LinaGS edits the page in December 2020 and again in January 2021 again along the same lines. Clearly we have the same editor showing up on a more or less annual cycle to promote this show. Now where this gets tricky is Analysis357 showed up at Talk:Robert Lawrence Kuhn (the creator, host, and producer of Closer to Truth) yesterday claiming to represent Mr Kuhn himself. The account Brain1050 has previously also claimed to be Mr Kuhn and fits the larger pattern of editing.

Looking at the history for Robert Lawrence Kuhn we find SPA's which function nearly identically to those above. For example Park357 who edited May-June 2010 and whose name bears a distinct resemblance to another of the accounts.

At Closer to Truth we find Challenge357 who edited in 2008 (in the middle of Brain1050's edits so there has been overlap since the beginning, we aren't talking about a series of clean starts here even putting aside the apparent COI issues). We then find Searcher111 in January 2011 doing the classic behavior before the already mentioned Analysis357, Endlessct9a, and Cttnjain take up the mantle.

In terms of naming in hindsight it appears that Brain1050 and not Endlessct9a is the oldest account. Horse Eye&#39;s Back (talk) 15:29, 14 July 2022 (UTC)

Comments by other users
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Clerk, CheckUser, and/or patrolling admin comments

 * - All but one of these accounts are, so CheckUser won't tell us anything useful. Sir Sputnik (talk) 16:55, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
 * Most of these accounts are many years old with single-digit edit counts. Even if these are all the same person who creates a new throwaway SPA annually to update this article, that seems more silly than disruptive.  And even if it is disruptive, blocking any or all of these won't solve the problem and would be contrary to WP:BLOCKP.  If the edits actually are disruptive, asking at WP:RFPP to semi-protect Closer to Truth and List of Closer to Truth episodes would probably be more useful, but I'm not convinced that's needed either.  Closing with no action taken.


 * Brain1050 is the oldest account, so a clerk may want to rename the case before archiving. -- RoySmith (talk) 15:21, 23 July 2022 (UTC)


 * case moved from Endlessct9a to Brain1050. The SandDoctor  Talk 19:19, 31 July 2022 (UTC)